Having transparency "issues"

[Doug Barton]

Howdy,

I am running openbox 3.4.7.2 on FreeBSD 8-current, with an up to date 
xorg installation. I'm shopping for a new taskbar so I've tried tint 
and fbpanel. However, I can't get either of them to be transparent. 
I've read the FAQ, and I tried both with and without xcompmgr, no dice.

I noticed the following thread on a Debian forum, so it doesn't seem 
to be OS-specific: 
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=27769&sid=137825ae4e86b96b2937930a9a770363

To see if it's application/type specific I also tried roxterm and that 
did not work, but aterm transparency does work. Weird.

If anyone has a clue or something to try (including patches) I'm game.


Thanks,

Doug